Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes Lyrics - Benji - Sun Kil Moon

Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes 

Got amped up on speed and broke into houses 

Bludgeoned people to death and wrote shit on their skin and left 'em 

They finally got him and he went to San Quentin 

His last murder was south of San Francisco 

A guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo 

A little girl in the Tenderloin was his first 

In the laundry room took a dollar from her fist 

His last days were at the Bristol hotel 

I was reading Night Stalker when I went and rang the bell 

Door man buzzed me, said you're just like them all 

Gave me a key and a black cat and led me down the hall 

Had a flight today from Boston to Cleveland 

Got a death in the family, gotta do some grieving 

Lost a relative and it's eating me up 

And I miss them real bad, I need a little love 

Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes 

These things mark time and make us pause 

Think about when we were kids scared of taps on the window 

What's under the bed and what's under the pillow 

And the Jim Jones massacre got in our heads 

And the TV headlines: "Elvis Presley is dead," 

And the Ayatollah Khomeini hostages 

And Ronald Reagen dodging bullets 

While I'm there I'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood 

Rick Stan's my age and still lives with his mom 

When he's not in jail from innocent stalking 

Writing bad checks, and cocaine charges 

Mark Denton had such a beautiful smile 

We always sat on his porch passing the time 

And drinking a beer and smoking a pack 

Until one day poor Mark had a heart attack 

Friend Ben's got a good job as a electrician 

Sister married the pool shark Jim Evans 

My next door neighbors whom I love so 

Loved me too but they passed long ago 

And if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl 

There's a house that was the scariest of them all 

A cute little palm with a sign "For Sale." 

But for those Sexton's kids' life was hell 

And I'm telling the truth and if you don't believe 

Pick up the Lowell Cauffiel's House of Secrets 

Had to fly from Cleveland to SFO 

Got 3 months off until my next show 

Gonna spend time with my girl, make a record this summer 

Fix my kitchen up and hire a plumber 

The headlines change so rapidly 

Then I came to the studio to work on something pretty 

And I saw the news on James Gandolfini 

While I was eating Ramen and drinking green tea 

The Sopranos guy died at 51 

That's the same age as the guy who's coming to play drums 

I don't like this getting older stuff 

Having to pee fifty times a day is bad enough 

Got a nagging prostate and I got a bad back 

When I fuck too much I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack 

I woke up today I saw the headlines 

An airline crashing, two people died 

And I'm at a barbecue in San Rafael 

And everybody's drunk and feeling pretty well 

At fifty-three Richard Ramirez died but in '83 

He was very much alive 

He was the scariest killer in the band 

He had a pentagram in the center of his hand 

And everybody remember the paranoia 

When he stalked the suburbs of Southern California 

And everybody will remember where they were 

When they finally caught the Night Stalker 

And I remember just where I was 

When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes